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... As there is almost nothing to say today, I thought I'd offer up some random thoughts on lima beans.

I’ve found that when lima beans are cooked incorrectly, they do, indeed, taste like chalk. When cooked correctly, they still taste like chalk. But what’s wrong with chalk? My third grade teacher kept complaining that she was missing chalk and couldn’t understand why my mouth was always covered in white dust. She ...

... and the canal was obsolete. What remains are the remnants of the locks and canals, along with the tow path. Fortunately, these are being preserved by the NPS and now provide recreational opportunities for walking and biking the entire canal route, which stretches over 180 miles.

Civil War Battle Sites in the area. We visited many of the Civil War related battle sites near and around the Washington DC ...

... is not an intestinal disorder, as it turns out), and poked our heads up out of the ground. We walked to the nearest Big Bus stop, got on, and took it to the next stop where we got off and visited the Vietnam Memorial and the World War II memorial.

It’s very sobering to stand at the Vietnam Memorial Wall and see the list of some 56,000 names of soldiers, sailors, ...

... on, got about half-way up, and the escalator stopped! I’m not kidding, now. It really did. Half-way up! It was terrifying. We stayed on that thing for a half-hour before the fire department came and put up ladders so that we could get off. Barbara made it down okay, but I had to be carried down the ladder on a big, burly firefighter’s shoulder! It was okay, though. She spoke nicely to me and kept me calm on the way ...

... we ate at Range (pizza = no; truffle ravioli = amazing) and arrived an hour late to the party. I was so excited to just hug Alicia. She looked gorgeous (as always) but was glowing in a radiance of happiness that I had never seen in her before. (She is always the most bubbly, happy and fun-loving person, but this was wedded bliss happiness). I had the opportunity to meet her longtime best friend from Ohio (whom I feel like I've known since college as we ...